Process of removing soap from its container



Sept. 24, 1929. H, FISCHER r 1,729,068

PROCESS OF REMOVING SQAP FROM ITS CONTAINER 7 Filed April 25, 1928 INVENTOR A TTORNEY Patented Sept. 24, 1929.;

UNITED STATES HEINRICH FISCHER, CINCINNATI, OHIO PROCESS OF REMOVING SOAP FROM ITS CONTAINER Application filed April 23,

This invention relates to the process of liquefying the soap within its container and drawing the soap therefrom in liquid form, and has forits object the easy and expeditious removal of the soap from the container and the elimination of the waste which results when the soap is taken out in solid form.

I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Soap and particularly soap for washing automobiles and like purposes is ordinarily packed in barrels or other large containers. It is-poured into the container while in a hot liquid state and it then hardens into a solid mass. When the soap is to 'be used lumps of it are chipped off of the solid mass by means of a sharp instrument of some kind, and these lumps are then dissolved in water.

Considerable time is wasted in chipping ofi 0 the required amount from the solid contents of the container and more often than otherwise a larger piece is secured and dissolved than is necessary. This extra amount is therefore wasted.

The solid piece of soap is usually not put into the wateruntil about the time it is to be used and in most cases the soap is sub jected to friction or the water is agitated in order to hasten solution. The solution formed in this way will show under the microscope, that the soap is not fully dissolved but that much of it is broken up into small particles which remain in suspension in the water, are then spread over the surface of the car and finally washed away. These small particles of soap are therefore wasted.

By the use of my process the concentrated soap is dissolved by the quiet contact of cold water through the principle of voluntary solution in contradistinction to solution by friction or agitation. The resulting solution formed within the soap container does not carry any small particles in suspension. The soap is fully dissolved and there are no trou- F blesome and wasteful particles of undissolved material in the washwater.

In the practical application of my improved process I provide an opening 1 in the top of the container and a passage 2 in the contents extending from the top to the bot- 1928. Serial No. 272,327.

tom of the container and matching with the opening'lin the container. -.f I also provide an opening 3 in the side of the container and near the .bottom thereof,=and-ra passage 4 in the contents extending in a horizontal direction from the opening 3 in the direction of the passage 2 until it intersects the passage 2 at a point near its lower end. I then insert a suitable spigot in" the opening 3. I then pour water-or other suitable liquid through the opening 1 until the passages 3 and a are filled. A limited amount of soap in contact with the water will dissolve in-the water and the resulting solution may then be drawn from the container throughthe spigot.

The passages in the soap may be formed by driving rods of any suitable size through the openings 1 and 3 into the material for the required distance and then withdrawing them. Or the rod may be placed in position in the container before it is filled and the liquid soap poured in on them. After the soap hardens the rods can then be withdrawn.

By means of this process the soap may be easily and quickly withdrawn from the container without the use of tools or cutting instrument's, and in the exact quantities needed. The inconvenience of chipping is thereby avoided and the waste consequent upon taking out greater quantities than are needed is thereby eliminated.

As the liquid soap is drawn from the container additional water should be added so that the container will always contain an amount of soap in liquid form ready for use.

The arrangement of the passages through the soap in the manner which I have described, appears to me to give the most satisfactory results. Other arrangements of the passages may, however, bemade and I therefore do not limit my claims to the precise arrangements of the water passages as shown but claim the principles set forth broadly.

I claim:

1. The process of liquefying soap within its container which consists of making a passage through the soap, each end of said passage matching with an opening in the container, filling said passage with a dissolving liquid by pouringit through the opening at one end of the passage, and ithdrawing the solution through the' opening in the conthe solution through the opening at the other end of the passage.

3. The process of liquefying soap within its container which consists of making a passage through the soap matching With an openin in the container, filling the passage with a issolving liquid by pouring it through the opening, and Withdrawing the solution from the container through the. same openin HEINRICH FIscHfiR.

DISCLAIMER- 1,729,068. He'inr'ich Fischer, Cincinnati, Ohio. PRooEss OF REMOVING SOAP FROM ITS CONTAINER. Patent dated September 24, 1929. Disclaimer filed November 20, 1930, by the patentee.

Disclaims the invention set forth in claims"18 of his said patent excepting when 'in the process claimed the making of the pass as set forth in-lines -73 on page l of the sai rods are placed in position in the container before in on them and after the soap hardens the rods ar [Ofiicial Gazette December .9, 1930.]

age through the soap is accomplished d specification of his said it is filled, the liqui e withdrawn.

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